Festivus 8 - 1/24/09

December 9th, 2008, 08:47 AM

The WDGC is again hosting our annual winter tournament at Adair County Park. Saturday January 24th is the day, the flyer can be found and printed on the calendar. The field is limited to 88 players on a 22 hole layout. Pre registration only. Titledisc is supposed to activate online registration today, but is not active yet. You can always snail mail your entry to Greg. If you are on the fence waiting to see what the weather will be like that Saturday you will have waited too long to get a spot in the tournament.
Rumor has it that KC has drawn some wind into this year's tournament stamp. He's the club artist and Festivus weather wizard for those not in the know.

Some wind... and he told me that I had to get a disc if I didn't attend... AWESOME! I can't wait to see it. I am thinking 9...

ďI believe I can hit 18 greens, hit every fairway, you know ó Vision 54, which means you birdie every hole, thatís in the back of my mind. I want to putt better, chip better. That day when I hit 18 greens and one putt, Iíll know Iím a complete golfer. Will that ever happen? Iím not sure, but itís possible. The 54 vision is always in the back of my mind.Ē~Annika SŲrenstam

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Any chance someone could post the current # of registered DG'ers in each division? I am looking forward to 44 sick holes of golf.

Thanks

Yes I would like to see a registration list as well. I have not received any kind of confirmation, and it would be nice to know if I made it in. Apparently it was pretty full when I went to register on the web site.

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Sorry folks I have been too busy and don't regularly check forums. I'm surprised I even remembered my password. Per David's first message, you snooze you lose. It was a mis-communication between me and Josh at titledisc. I thought I had given him the green light but many messages from him went to my Spam folder in Yahoo. I did not realize he was waiting for me to review it. Anyway I never care whether people send me checks or use titledisc, just want to give people options.

Festivus 2009 is essentially full. If you did not mail your registration or contact me on Wednesday 1/7 you will most likely be on the wait list.

Hopefully we will get a drying pattern in the week before the tournament. I imagine there is a river between the parking lot and tournament central. Come prepared with rain gear in case it is more than just windy per the disc design forecast.

Food for lunch is lined up with club members including Beer and some chili from Calapooia. Mark and Laura will both be playing this year. Make sure you thank them for all their support of our sport.

Everyone will get a microfiber towel again this year which may cause the rain to stay away.

Sweet trophies are in the works being made by Rebels club member John Linder. If you were fortunate to get one at the 2007 Lava Launch or 2008 Hyzer Pines Shoot Out trophies, you know what I am talking about. Sorry no trophies for Recreational Divisions.

Happy Festivus!

discgolfgreg

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Sorry folks I have been too busy and don't regularly check forums. I'm surprised I even remembered my password. Per David's first message, you snooze you lose. It was a mis-communication between me and Josh at titledisc. I thought I had given him the green light but many messages from him went to my Spam folder in Yahoo. I did not realize he was waiting for me to review it. Anyway I never care whether people send me checks or use titledisc, just want to give people options.

Festivus 2009 is essentially full. If you did not mail your registration or contact me on Wednesday 1/7 you will most likely be on the wait list.

Hopefully we will get a drying pattern in the week before the tournament. I imagine there is a river between the parking lot and tournament central. Come prepared with rain gear in case it is more than just windy per the disc design forecast.

Food for lunch is lined up with club members including Beer and some chili from Calapooia. Mark and Laura will both be playing this year. Make sure you thank them for all their support of our sport.

Everyone will get a microfiber towel again this year which may cause the rain to stay away.

Sweet trophies are in the works being made by Rebels club member John Linder. If you were fortunate to get one at the 2007 Lava Launch or 2008 Hyzer Pines Shoot Out trophies, you know what I am talking about. Sorry no trophies for Recreational Divisions.

Happy Festivus!

discgolfgreg

I am completely grateful for all you do in putting these events together so please don't take this as any form of dissatisfaction.

Would you mind providing an explanation as to why a particular division would not receive a trophy in a non-pdga event? I am just uncertain as to why it would make sense to exclude a non cash division from receiving a trophy. Didn't that division go out and bust their butts for 44 holes to try and win just like everyone else?

Again, not being critical, just not very certain of the logic behind not offering the trophy to MA3 and FW3. My guess is it is because of the lower entry fee? That would make sense.

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I am completely grateful for all you do in putting these events together so please don't take this as any form of dissatisfaction.

Would you mind providing an explanation as to why a particular division would not receive a trophy in a non-pdga event? I am just uncertain as to why it would make sense to exclude a non cash division from receiving a trophy. Didn't that division go out and bust their butts for 44 holes to try and win just like everyone else?

Again, not being critical, just not very certain of the logic behind not offering the trophy to MA3 and FW3. My guess is it is because of the lower entry fee? That would make sense.

Thanks,

Fair question

1) Recreational is the Division by name it implies that people that sign up for the division are more casual golfers that are playing at least as much for fun as for serious competition.

2) I have ordered a limited amount of trophies so the number awarded per divsion will vary based on the size of the division with just 1st place for smaller divisions. I decided to spend much more on nicer functional trophies this year, but there will be a few less to hand out.

3) Maybe those inclined to sand bag by playing Rec while destroying at least 1/2 the Intermediate field will be provoked into moving up. Every event that I have seen a Rec division the person who wins clearly should have been playing Intermediate at least with the guys.

Since I made the Recreational Entry Fee the same as Intermediate this year, that is not a reason but could be a factor in different circumstances. I made them the same mostly to ensure there was still something left for scrip to play for after deducting players pack costs.